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Location map The Oldham to Rochdale motorway isn't exactly a photo stop on the tour bus. It isn't really very impressive at all. Unless you're a fan of deep cuttings, you might not even notice that you'd been on a motorway, because it's very short too.

The most interesting point is the M62 interchange, which has "provision for a future flyover". Since this was built in the 1970s, the chances of that flyover being built have shrunk so as to be almost invisible, and what we are left with is a big square roundabout with A627(M) traffic stopping at the traffic lights. The traffic lights wouldn't, of course, be needed if they'd build the damned flyover. Perhaps the lack of urgency to connect its two halves together is explained by the 1962 Selnec Roads Plan, which describes the motorway as two seperate schemes: the Broadway Extension (Broadway being the A664 leading away from the motorway's southern end) and the Rochdale Spur.

Despite being rather dull, this motorway manages a tiny little same-number spur to connect with the A664. Or does it? Pathetic Motorways has some evidence to suggest that the spur is (or was) numbered A6138(M).

Factfile

Start	Oldham (A627)
Finish	Rochdale (A627)
Passes	None
Length	6 miles
Terminates	None
Spurs	None
Meets	M62

Images

Views of the A627(M) from on and off the road. If you have a photo to contribute, contact me.

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Construction Timeline

When the various parts of the A627(M) were built, listed in chronological order.

Open	Section
1972	Entire motorway

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Junction	Northbound				Southbound
	Rochdale Sudden (A58)	(A58)	*NORTH*	(A664)	N/A

	Lower Place Milnrow (A664)

	Retail Park
	1 mile, 2 lanes				1 mile, 2 lanes
(M62 J20)	Manchester Bolton M62 (M60 )	M62		M62	Leeds Hull M62

	Leeds Hull M62				Manchester Bolton M62 (M60 )
	1 mile, 3 lanes				1 mile, 2 lanes
	Castleton Middleton (A664)	(A664)			Castleton Middleton (A664)
	2 miles, 2 lanes				2 miles, 2 lanes
	N/A		A663 *SOUTH*	A663 A627	Manchester Failsworth A663 (M60 )

					Royton, Shaw A663

					Oldham A627

					Chadderton